Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many long years ago lived Blasius, physician and bishop of Sebaste in Armenia. In his old age, during the persecutions of Emperor Licinius, Blasius retired to a cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away...
"These are the time that try men's souls." So said Tom Paine, at the beginning of the American Revolution. He said a lot more, during the course of that struggle; he tactfully remarked that General Howe "showed an inbred wretchedness of heart made up between the venomous malignity of...
Like Anthony Trollope, Edgar Wallace was a most workmanlike practitioner of literature. Unfortunately, Mr. Wallace's work bears more evidence of the mechanical way in which it was turned than does that of Trollope. While Wallace is frequently boring, his work is also at times better than one would expect...
While Samuel Insull was wondering where to go next this week, lights flashed on in the mammoth opera house he built for Chicago and for the first time since he fled the country a formal Chicago opera season was about to begin. Prices were cut in half so that orchestra...
In professional football a ball is not down unless its runner is completely stopped. A forward pass may be thrown from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The goalposts are on the goalline, instead of 10 yards behind. How these rules open up the game 30,000 spectators saw for...